The Department is named as Labour Welfare Department which was earlier known as Labour & Employment Department. It runs under the State Govt. of Assam. The overall administrative authority of the Department is the Labour Commissioner, Assam under whom zonal works offices are there under the Head of Assistant Labour Commissioner who controls the Labour Officers/Labour Inspectors at District/Sub-division level. The Asst. Labour Commissioner and the Labour Officer are authorized to implement as the Registering Officer/Licensing Officer under various Labour Laws and the Labour Inspectors are appointed as registering officer under the Assam Shops & Esstt. Act and Inspector under different Labour Laws: -
In order to obtain the above mentioned services the eligibility criteria are as follows:
For further details information the applicants concerned may contact the under mention officer of the office of the Asstt. Labour Commissioner, Dhubri.
Forms of application for obtaining certificate of registration/licence under various labour Acts are given in soft copy.
Forms are filled up as per the questionnaire provided under rules of the Act.
Fee: Under shops & Esstt. Act.
Number of Employee under shops |
Amount (In Rs.) |
NIL |
300 |
01 to 03 |
1000 |
04 to 09 |
2000 |
10 to 20 |
4000 |
21 to 50 |
10000 |
51 to above |
20000 |
Number of Employee under Commercial Esstt. |
Amount (In Rs.) |
NIL |
250 |
01 to 03 |
1000 |
04 to 09 |
2500 |
10 to 20 |
5000 |
21 to 50 |
10000 |
51 to above |
20000 |
Number of Employee under Entertainment Place. |
Amount (In Rs.) |
NIL |
250 |
01 to 03 |
1000 |
04 to 09 |
2500 |
10 to 19 |
5000 |
20 to above |
10000 |
Fees under motor transport workers Act. |
Amount (In Rs.) |
01 to 05 |
100 |
06 to 25 |
200 |
Late fees = 50% of registration /renewal |
|
Fees under contract Labour Act |
Amount (In Rs.) |
01 to 10 |
10 |
11 to 20 |
20 |
21 to 50 |
50 |
51 to 100 |
100 |
101 to 200 |
20 |
Late fees = 50 % of registration/renewal
The fees for registration/ licence are deposited through treasury challan.
The supporting documents are required on the basis of the Acts under which the applications are received.
There is no any time line for submitting the application. Only in case of renewal, the applications for renewal is to be submitted before expiry of the validity. Otherwise the applicant are to deposit late fee (in some cases where applicable.)
The applications are disposed of after due scrutiny of the same within 10 to 15 days.
The contact for any query may be made to the under mentioned officers.
The name of officer Designation Phone No.
Montosh Kr Das Asstt. Labour Commissioner, Dhubri 9435029845
Office of the Assistant Labour Commissioner, Dhubri
A.C. Das Gupta Road, Dhubri, Assam
Prohibition of Child Labour :
The Child and Adolescent Labour Act,1986 prohibits the children below the 14 years to work in any hazardous and non hazardous establishments. In order to detect such child Labourers, District Level child Labour Task Force committee , is constituted under the Chairmanship of the Deputy Commissioner along with the members from Labour Welfare Department ,Social Welfare Department as well as stake holder social workers, CWC etc. The Committees visit the child Labours prone establishment and rescue the engaged child Labour from the concern establishments and hand over to the CWC and the CWC after duly examining them by the Health Department regarding their ages, the CWC there after take them to shelter houses as well as institutions under NCLP (where available).
In respect of Adolescent Labourers i.e those who are above the age of 14 years & below the age of 18 years are prohibited to engage in hazardous works i.e. they may be employed in only non hazardous works and their working hours must not be more than 6 hours in a day and must be facilitate with schooling and other facilities as provided under the said Act.
Mean while the Labour Welfare Department issues show cause notices to the recalcitrant employers and after receiving the replies, if the authorise Inspector feels deem about the actual engagement of Child Labour ,he files complains against the employer concern for violation of the aforesaid Act before the Hon’ble Court of the chief Judicial Magistrate of his respective area .